Leanne Hoagland Smith, of ADVANCED SYSTEMS a business coaching training firm, is now certified to administer and interpret the Innermetrix Attribute Index.

The following additions were recently made to the medical staff at Advocate South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest:

Zafar Ahmed, M.D., board-certified in internal medicine; Mohammed Asgar, M.D., board-certified in internal medicine;

Deborah Basile, M.D., board-certified in internal medicine; Aneta Bush, M.D., board-certified in infectious disease; Daniel DeSimone Jr., D.O., board-certified in internal medicine; Bruce Dolitsky, M.D., board-certified orthopedic surgeon; Robert Fliegelman, D.O., board-certified in infectious disease; Farzana Iqbal, M.D., board-certified in internal medicine. Joseph Kent, M.D., board-certified in infectious disease; Sanobar Khan, M.D., board-certified pathologist; Sampath Kumar, M.D., board-certified in infectious disease; Ana Maria Nowell, M.D., board-certified in internal medicine; Martin Phillips, M.D., board-certified in infectious disease; Rajat Prakash, M.D., board-certified in internal medicine; Kamo Sidhwa board-certified in infectious diseases. The following physicians recently joined the medical staff at Advocate: Board-certified nephrologist Jeanette McLaughlin, M.D., practices in

Evergreen Park; family practitioner Salim Dawalibi, practices in Chicago; board-certified radiologist Derek West, M.D., practices in Harvey; board-certified orthopedic surgeon Telly Psaradelles, M.D., practices in Chicago; board-certified neurologist Christopher Fahey, M.D., practices in Blue Island; board-certified cardiologist Brian Akrami, D.O., practices in Hazel Crest; board-certified podiatrist Johnny Rossi, D.P.M., practices in Hazel Crest.

Wayne Brumm, volunteer basketball coach at the Sport Youth Foundation in Merrillville, has been named one of the 12 finalists in the national 2008 Community Leadership Awards. Brumm is a certified financial planner and branch manager in Crown Point for Raymond James Financial Services Inc.

Thomas Villing, president of Villing & Co., president; Alexandria Trusov, Marketing Projects Manager at Elkhart Brass Mfg. Co., Inc., president-Elect, vice-president of membership; Norma Sheldon, account executive with WCWW, treasurer, vice-President of programs; John Gaski, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing at Notre Dame University, secretary; Thomas E Boyt, DVM, Ph.D., dean of the business school at Valparaiso University, professor of marketing, board; Monle Lee, DBA, MBA, faculty at Indiana University-South Bend with the School of Business and Economics, board.

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